The Diabetes Blog

Small stones often pass in the urine, some will require alternative treatment, such as shock wave Lithotripsy. This treatment uses sonic waves to break up kidney stones into tiny pieces so that they can be passed naturally through the system. The...

A recent study has revealed that passive smokers are more vulnerable to diabetes than the smokers. The study was divided between current smokers, former smokers, non-smokers who were exposed to second-hand smoke and non-smokers who were not exposed to...

The same factors that lead to diabetes may also increase a person's risk of pancreatic cancer, research suggests. Do you know, high insulin levels and increased resistance to the hormone were associated with a higher cancer risk? This is found by the US..

Is your child in line to develop diabetes? How will you know that? Doctors may be able to use a new method to predict whether children are in line to develop diabetes, a new report reveals. "Abdominal obesity is a health risk even though the BMI may...

Veterans are more likely than the general population to have diabetes, one of the major complications associated with being overweight, research has shown. To help address the increasingly alarming issues of obesity and deadly diabetes among America's...

Ontario has increased its health-care spending budget by $1.9-billion. And it will become the first province in Canada to fund insulin pumps for children with diabetes as part of budget. Some 6,500 children diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes will be...

Latino women with prior pregnancy-related or "gestational" diabetes are risking diabetes.And the reason is the contraception with depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, which is associated with an increase in the risk of the diabetes. Often referred to...

Most of the mother-to-be and new mothers know that breast-feeding is healthy for your baby. But, do you know it is of great help to the mother as well?! It has been found that breastfeeding a child for one year may reduce a woman's risk of developing...

China might have just beaten India to becoming the `Diabetes Capital of the World!' Fresh estimates put the number of diabetics in the world's most populous nation at over 30 million! The World Health Organisation (WHO) is examining data that may put...

Are you a type 2 diabetic and treated with pioglitazone? Do you know, up to 75 percent of the increase in body weight that can occur in is from you water retention? Researchers reported this in the journal Diabetes Care. The drug also tends to reduce...